Weight Lifting Champion Persuasive Essay

Story Proposal: The theme of the essay is the main character conforming to societal pressures, but realizing in a near death experience and becoming paralyzed because she got bit by a snake that she was meant to be the way she is and should not change herself for someone or to fit in. The protagonist wants to be seen as perfect in her boyfriend’s eyes, but she thinks that he believes she is too muscular and big. She has to decide if it is worth conforming to pressures of society to be what society projects to be the ideal woman. If she conforms she loses her individuality and eventually loses the chance at chasing her dream of being a national weight lifting champion.
Characters:
Protagonist- Girl who faces the pressures of high school and …show more content…
The weights will be a representation of the physical pressures of society that the main character experiences. The problem of the short story is main character (girl, protagonist) wants to be accepted, so instead of following her passion of being a professional weight lifter, she runs miles till she collapses to try to lose weight, instead of maintaining her muscular figure. She loses her weight lifting competition that she was expected to win to get to a nation competition, which has been her dream since she was a little girl. While she continually is running in the woods to lose weight, she gets bit by a poisonous snake (which will represent one of her “fake” friends). When she dies in that minute she will talk to the animals, which will allow her to realize she is not herself, but when she wakes up she will be paralyzed. Now that she is paralyzed she realizes she will never be able to reach her dream of being a national weightlifting champion because she allowed the pressures of others get in the way of what she wanted for her life. The final image will be her in her workout clothes in the middle of a dream overhead lifting 10 pounds rather than the 80+ she was lifting